Word: wiped
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...organization, traveled from Paris to Governor Brown's office in Sacramento to plead personally for Chessman's life. Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Nelson Hungria, principal author of the Brazilian penal code (no capital punishment), declared that "Caryl Chessman is the most eloquent assurance of the need to wipe out once and for all the death penalty, that ugly stain on civilization." Much of the save-Chessman agitation around the world has little or no connection with the general debate over capital punishment. It arises partly out of compassion, sometimes tinged with admiration, for his twelve-year battle...
...both his divinity and his isolation from the people of Japan. He visited mines and factories, would call out to fishermen, "Did you have a good catch today?" He crawled informally into ditches to examine plants that interested him-he is an expert on fungus -and would then unconcernedly wipe his muddy hands on his trousers...
...American Legion's National Security Commission in Washington. Fortnight ago Power warned that the Russians with a force of just 300 missiles -half intercontinental ballistic missiles and half intermediate-range ballistic missiles-could destroy the U.S.'s 100-odd air bases at home and overseas and "virtually wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes...
...U.S.S.R. might be tempted by its edge in missiles to try to knock out U.S. retaliatory power with a surprise attack on U.S. bomber and missile bases. The warning by SAC's commander, General Thomas S. Power, that with a mere 300 ballistic missiles the U.S.S.R. could "wipe out our entire nuclear strike capability within a span of 30 minutes," is much to the point. General Power's answer to the threat-an "airborne alert" that would keep 25% of SAC's B-52s in the air at all times - would be enormously strenuous and costly...
...went on, "that the U.S. is not the world's most powerful military power. We are not trying to sweat anybody, but these are the facts." Rattling his rockets in the style he used to assail Western "military circles" for doing a few years ago, Khrushchev promised to "wipe from the face of the earth" any aggressor, and boasted: "Though the weapons we have now are formidable indeed, the weapon we have today in the hatching stage is even more formidable. The weapon, which is being developed and is, as they say, in the portfolio of our scientists...